Channing Tatum's Gambit Movie; Gets Its Release Date 

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Channing Tatum\'s Gambit Movie Gets Its Release Date

Channing Tatum\'s big role next year? An inveterate Cajun thief with special powers.

loose adaptation of Dr. John\'s life story: He\'s going to play Gambit, one of the lesser-known X-Men.

Fox announced the film\'s October 2016 release date Monday, and the actor seemingly confirmed the long-swirling rumors that he\'d play the mutant via Twitter.

Gambit (real name: Remy Etienne LeBeau) first appeared in

#266, and as previously mentioned, is a professional thief and gambler hailing from Louisiana. His mutant power grants him the ability to charge things with kinetic energy and turn any object into an explosive. He uses playing cards, because he likes to gamble (per the name) and also because these are comic books, where wildly impractical weapons are industry standard.

Channing Tatum-starring Gambit film set for 2016: http://t.co/rs1lQHiwv5 (Plus a release date news burst) pic.twitter.com/eUo7SryjnG

Gambit (who had a long-running romance with Rogue, played in the Fox films by Anna Paquin) was first portrayed onscreen by Taylor Kitsch in 2009\'s

The new Gambit film\'s script will reportedly be written by

writer Josh Zetumer from a treatment by longtime Marvel writer Chris Claremont, who created the character and wrote some of Marvel\'s most popular story lines.

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